Gigabyte MA790FX DQ6

[BadNizze]

Congratz on that WR Lightman, I will be hunting you next week when I get my X4...

Did a quick bench run tonight, SuperPI 1mb only. All tests done on air inside at roomtemp. Ambient 20C. 2*92 Zalman fan over memory, that´s all!

Everest


And my personal best SuperPi time! Very happy for this!

[S1nn3r]

You people getting good results from this board are makeing me jealous heh.

Im gonna order a 4gb kit over the weekend and may as well pick up a cheapo OEM copy of Vista Home premium to while im at it, not much point in getting another 2gb kit if ill go Vista at some point it seems what with DDR2 prices being what they are, and i may as well play around with vista now if im getting a 4gb kit.

Also Im now looking for a new case as I RMAed the Lian Li A05, and Im not going Lian Li again, been burnt twice on them.

[mAJORD]

This board is really good.. till you stick a phenom in it!

SO I'm wondering if ANYONe has had any luck booting over 2.7Ghz with the 9500.. it is capable from a stability pt of view, It was stable on Air at this speed.

I have all the cooling in the world at my disposal and I'm certain exceeding 3Ghz will be possible with it when / IF this problem becomes fixable.

[Aussie FX]

This board is really good.. till you stick a phenom in it!

SO I'm wondering if ANYONe has had any luck booting over 2.7Ghz with the 9500.. it is capable from a stability pt of view, It was stable on Air at this speed.

I have all the cooling in the world at my disposal and I'm certain exceeding 3Ghz will be possible with it when / IF this problem becomes fixable.

What voltage are you giving it now mAJORD?
The early Phenom Anand had when Barca was released was showing ~1.5v on cpuz. So I wouldn't think it's a cpu limitation.
Did you see the link I put up from THG? They oc'ed that cpu to 3.0 but they were using bios F2i on this board.
It is strange though that this limit kicks in with Phenom and not K8.
VVJ posted the F2i bios a while back, it's in this thread somewhere.

Anyway hows it performing at 2.7?

Edit:
On re-reading that page from Toms, nobody was allowed to raise the cpu voltage when overclocking, so maybe that's why it's been disabled for Phenoms.
That's my guess.

[mAJORD]

Yeah Aussie, thanks for the link. I had a looksie. IT seems they were OCing a 2.4ghz (12 multi), and were using overdrive, which doesn't work on the giga.

I've tried F2H now just not i, will give that a shot!

2.7 (2.67) is good, it's nice and stable, similar results to the guy using the M2N-SLI.

[Lightman]

Congratz on that WR Lightman, I will be hunting you next week when I get my X4...

Did a quick bench run tonight, SuperPI 1mb only. All tests done on air inside at roomtemp. Ambient 20C. 2*92 Zalman fan over memory, that´s all!

Everest


And my personal best SuperPi time! Very happy for this!

Thanks BadNizze!!

Regarding your memory setup I'm speechless

Yeah Aussie, thanks for the link. I had a looksie. IT seems they were OCing a 2.4ghz (12 multi), and were using overdrive, which doesn't work on the giga.

I've tried F2H now just not i, will give that a shot!

2.7 (2.67) is good, it's nice and stable, similar results to the guy using the M2N-SLI.

mAJORD today I made overdrive to work on my Giga !

I was wondering why we can't adjust voltages from this utility and then I decided to give it a go with BIOS setting to Auto!
Easy! Now all sliders are working from Windows and I can change everything except vMEM and PCIe .

Only problem was with memory voltage, because default 1.8V is no good for high clocks...
Luckily my memory has EPP profile defaulted to 2.2V so I enabled it and still can push memory to 1000MHz area with 4-4-4 timings! Seet !

Hope this will help..

BTW I tested my CPU further on this board and 3450MHz is 100% stable at 1.375V!!

[informal]

3450Mhz @1.375V
Amazing

Very useful stuff about Auto setting ,lets hope mAJORD will have more luck with OverDrive and Phenom.SOme reviews mentioned that while BIOS OCing didn't work,they were able to OC Phenoms via the OD utility!

[Hemi]

Check this cheaper board they have at the Egg. It looks great for 2 graphics cards or less. DS 5 anyone

[S1nn3r]

Think im gonna order this and give it a try -

http://www.memoryc.com/products/desc...kit/index.html

Seems to be a good value and predicable kit in terms of OC Results from what ive read. Also uses very diffrent ICs from the Kit I have now which would be good as a troubleshooting measure prehaps.

Also do you people think its worth as a last ditch attempt at getting my current sticks FFT Blend stable at even stock settings giveing them the full 2.4v that the board can give ?

[Hemi]

S1nn3r,

Down load memtest for windows and try that program. works real good in xp
Try one stick and then the other one at default settings. If still having problems
change from ddr 800 to a lower speed such as 667 etc. If all fails try sticks in another computer, good luck

[mAJORD]

This board can get rooted until a proper bios comes out

Now windows is corrupted

Worked so well with an X2 in it. Seems people are having more luck with Phenom on Nforce 5 , time to throw it in this crosshair with its dirty install

[Aussie FX]

Very useful stuff about Auto setting ,lets hope mAJORD will have more luck with OverDrive and Phenom.SOme reviews mentioned that while BIOS OCing didn't work,they were able to OC Phenoms via the OD utility!

I have found overdrive to be hit and miss with my 6400
In bios I can set HTT to ~430 but with overdrive it locks up at 220
Also I can only just hit 3.5 with this chip with overdrive and so far I've got 3550 using bios. I haven't tried for max oc in bios yet.
So I think overdrive still has issues or it's only really compatible with Phenom.
OTOH I read somewhere that Gigabyte don't support it yet.

[Aussie FX]

This board can get rooted until a proper bios comes out

Now windows is corrupted

Worked so well with an X2 in it. Seems people are having more luck with Phenom on Nforce 5 , time to throw it in this crosshair with its dirty install

Ha, I've got a Crosshair here as well.

Meh, I thought it was going to collect cobwebs.

Maybe not afterall

BTW, My Phenom shipped today.

[Brother Esau]

hey, just ordered my DFI 790FX and should I get the 6400+ or Phenom 9500?

How is the 6400+ doing in terms of overclocking?

[Aussie FX]

hey, just ordered my DFI 790FX and should I get the 6400+ or Phenom 9500?

How is the 6400+ doing in terms of overclocking?

The Gigabyte is overclocking the 6400 great, no real problems apart from bios limitations.
I haven't got Phenom so I can't really say. Although 1 is on order

[mAJORD]

Aussie, if you can, throw the Phenom in the Xhair and see if it will boot into windows :O

mine BSOD's after login. I didn't have any problem going from K8 to K10 on the giga however, Some devices were detected though.

[gOtVoltage]

mAJORD Just out of curiosity i Flashed the new bios for my M2N32deluxe and by defaut even if i changed the Voltages it wouldnt run my X2!!!! ...So i flashed back to 1201 from the 1402 and 1503 bioses that were suppose to support Phenom and X2 procs...I think ASUS goofed up big time!

Whats wierd is the new Bioses is suppose to be able to run X2 or Phenom!...When i tried booting to windows with the X2 and 1503 bios it would show windows boot screen faded but loading still as if it had low voltage on boot and then it would just restart restart ? Shouldnt it still run my X2 ... I can Access the Bios and change all settings fine. In Bios all functions work Normal and even the new function for the Phenom was optional in Bios. I do plan on getting a 9500-9600... I hope this pans out becuase the Asus mobos Oc pretty nice for AM2

[Aussie FX]

Aussie, if you can, throw the Phenom in the Xhair and see if it will boot into windows :O

mine BSOD's after login. I didn't have any problem going from K8 to K10 on the giga however, Some devices were detected though.

Isn't there a new bios that needs to be flashed to run the Phenom on Crosshair?
I had a lot of bsod problems with my 6000 and xhair - turned out to be ram...

But yeah as soon as the chip arrives I will let you know. Looks like it might be Thursday now.

[mAJORD]

yeah It's got the latest BIOS.

POST's and boots windows fine, I just can't login. I think a fresh install will do it

[Aussie FX]

What's the difference between K8 and Phenom NB clocks?

What does Phenom clock the NB at?

[informal]

What's the difference between K8 and Phenom NB clocks?

What does Phenom clock the NB at?

Hi aussie FX,
The difference is in the way the clock is calculated.IN K8s the NB block is on the same power plane always and has the same clock as the rest of the CPU(so in your case the NB runs at fantastic 3.5GHz ).You can now see how big of a difference there is between K8s and K10s NB clocks.IN K10's case,NB clock is derived from the base HT clock and a multiplier(tictac described the way how it works in his latest post).The NB clock in 9500 model is 1.8Ghz and with 9600 model it should be 2Ghz(both of these are on both AM2+ and AM2 mobos AFAIK)
Also,since L3 is in NB block in K10's case,it works at the same freq. the NB is working.So OCing the NB should bring obvious improvements across the board for K10 since L3 latency will drop like a brick and mem. latency and bandwidth will greatly improve too(all data from memory to the CPU must go through the IMC,2 DCTs and finally L3 in order to get to the cores;there are SRQ and crossbar involved too but fir the NB the most important are IMC and L3)

Good luck with your Phenom

[OBR]

Phenom and this mobo is horror, i dont know my Phenom is crap or this mobo ... i cant to set higher FSB then 220, system freezes or no post, no boot ...

Mem dividers are flaky, my RAM i have on Intel at 1200MHz 15-5-5-5, and on this mobo is unstable on no boot at 800MHz 15-5-5-5, if FSB is 220MHz and divider is 800, i have to set 667 ...

I am really pissed, but i dont know what is crap ... mobo or cpu? Can someone with high OC on this mobo post some bios settings?

[BadNizze]

Phenom and this mobo is horror, i dont know my Phenom is crap or this mobo ... i cant to set higher FSB then 220, system freezes or no post, no boot ...

Mem dividers are flaky, my RAM i have on Intel at 1200MHz 15-5-5-5, and on this mobo is unstable on no boot at 800MHz 15-5-5-5, if FSB is 220MHz and divider is 800, i have to set 667 ...

I am really pissed, but i dont know what is crap ... mobo or cpu? Can someone with high OC on this mobo post some bios settings?

Witch bios are you using? I´m running F2i and it work like a charm for me, always DISSABLE Autoexpress. My board is utter crap with Autoexpress enabled... Getting my Phenom tomorrow if the postoffice ain´t TO SLOW! I´ll know more then!

[S1nn3r]

Ive ordered that 4gb G.Skill Kit(and Vista Home Premium 64bit to go with it) heres hopeing things work out better with G.Skill then Mushkin..

And on that note what benches,stress tests and temp/fan monitor apps work well on Vista 64bit ?

[OBR]

i have F2L